User: bug brother

Re:No, that's what Israel lobbied for

On: Google Maps Now Cover Whole World

Satellites using US technology aren't permitted to image Israel with a resolution of greater than 2 meters per pixel. That's why the images of Israel are so lousy.

Right, it's stupid paranoia. It's not like they have neighboring dictators which repeatedly starts wars against them, or something.

Plz help: Where is all the info?

On: Microsoft Employee Allegedly Hacked AltaVista

when you don't have a centrally controlled company bearing the responsibility and managing the Intellectual Prop...

I saw that, laughed and thought I'd look up the dirty history of Microsoft.

Where is all the Microsoft information on the net?

I've read articles through the years about astroturf, theft of code (e.g. quicktime code from Apple), immoral business deals, etc, etc, etc.

There must a good site out there somewhere?

I don't know if I've lost all my Google expertise or something, but.. can someone help?

Get real

On: USAF Readies Laser of Death

1. Afghanistan has a chance to be a nicer place thanks to USA joining one of the sides in their civil war and stopping a really brutal dictatorship. It would have been endless otherwise, with no end of deaths.

1.1 You could, of course, argue that the real crime was when the world ignored Afghanistan after '89 and left them to their war.

1.1.1 Somalia (no fun trying to stop civil war).

1.1.2. It's easy to give away other people's money (-: and, what's more important, easy to risk others popularity figures! :-).

2. The interesting thing is not WTC -- it's what bin Laden et al will bomb next!

2.1. Arguably this is the reason it's worth putting billions into stopping him. Especially if he continues destroying places I want to go to as a tourist!

2.2. This also makes it impossible to leave places like Afghanistan and Somalia to go to Hell in the future -- Hell spreads...

3. (-: If they nuke Redmond, I promise to send money to bin Laden... :-)